US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University on Feb. 17 for "Universal ground-based microgravity system" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,557, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Universal ground-based microgravity system" was invented by Vincent Pizziconi (Tempe, Ariz.) and Kimia Seyedmadani (Paradise Valley, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides ground-based reduced gravity systems and methods of using the same to evaluate, synthesize, adapt, alter, process and produce diverse material systems, biological and non-biological, living and non-living, at close to true microgravity conditions as that which exist in space, and other reduced gravity conditions."...